One of a Kind Bridge in China

According to the official Weibo account for the Shenxianju Scenic Area, construction on the Ruyi bridge began in 2017 and was finally opened in September of 2020. In a second post, the park explained that the bridge spans 100 meters across the east and west gorges of Shenxianju. A rough translation of the post read:
With a total length of 100 meters and a vertical height of more than 140 meters, it spans the east and west gorges of Shenxianju. Intertwined into an undulating bridge body, visitors have a sense of experience when they pass. The rigid and soft shape is perfectly integrated with the natural scenery of the Fairy House, just like a jade ruyi in the sky, and like a fairy draped silk. The painting is like a screen, and when seen from a distance, the mountains are full of movement, and they also carry beauty and auspiciousness.

Blues with a sense of humor

I can’t lose with the stuff I use
(Don’t you just know it)
Baby, don’t believe I wear two left shoes
(Don’t you just know it)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Hey, pretty baby, can we go strollin’
(Don’t you just know it)
You got me rockin’ when I wanna be rollin’
(Don’t you just know it)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Baby, baby, you’re my blue heaven
(Don’t you just know it)
You got me pushin’ when I wanna be shoving
(Don’t you just know it)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)The older the woman, the more she teases
(Don’t you just know it)
The younger the Couple, the tighter they squeeze
(Don’t you just know it)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba
(Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba)
Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)Ah ha ha ha
(Ah ha ha ha)
Ey eh, oh
(Ey eh, oh)

Give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn’t have no business
Honey buyin’ you no wig at all.

Takin’ me downtown
Say four forty nine,
When I get down there
I swear, nine ninety nine.

You just give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn’t have no business
Honey buyin’ you no wig at all.

Yeah my Mama told me
And your good friend too,
When you get that wig
That’s the way you gonna do.

You just give me back my wig
Honey now let your head go bald.
Really didn’t have no business
Honey buyin’ you no wig at all.

Goodbye little one
All I got to say.
Give me back my wig and be
On your merry way.

You just give me back my wig
Honey, now let your head go bald.
Really didn’thave no business
Honey buyin’ you no wig at all

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple (titled onscreen Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple) is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC. The show, which stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, was the first of several sitcoms developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The series is based on the 1965 play The Odd Couple written by Neil Simon, which was also adapted into the 1968 film The Odd Couple. The story examines two divorced men, Oscar and Felix, who share a Manhattan apartment and whose opposite personalities inevitably lead to conflict and laughter.

New Order

Help Me Somebody Help Me
I Wonder Where I Am
I See My Future Before Me
I’ll Hurt You When I Can
It Seems Like I’ve Been Here Before
Confusion Sprung Up From Devotion
A Halo That Covers My Eyes
It Sprung From This First Estrangement
No One Have I Ever Despised
Is This The Way That You Wanted To Pay
Won’t You Show Me Please Show Me The Way
Is This The Way That You Wanted To Pay
Won’t You Show Me Please Show Me The Way

My promise could be your fiend
A given end to your dreams
A simple movement or rhyme
Could be the smallest of signs
We’ll never know what they are or care
In it’s escapable view
There’s no escape so few in fear
Give in a changing value

To be given your sight
Hid in a long peaceful night
A nervous bride for your eyes
A fractured smile that soon dies
A love that’s wrong from your life and soul
A savage mine had begun
Hello, farewell to your love and soul
Hello, farewell to your soul

Now I know what those hands would do
No looking back now, we’re pushing through
We’ll change these feelings, we’ll taste and see
But never guess how the him would scream
But never guess how the him would scream
But never guess how the him would scream

Creepy robotic head is like Ash from the movie ‘Alien’

Could this be the future of robotics ? Image Credit: YouTube / Engineered Arts

This super-realistic robotic head is capable of exhibiting a wide range of human emotions.The latest creation of British robotics company Engineered Arts, this unnerving facsimile of a human male achieves what is often referred to as ‘uncanny valley’ given that it looks eerily close to being a real human but it is possible to tell that something isn’t quite right about it.

Named Adrian and described as a ‘mesmer robot head’, this fascinating contraption is shown ‘waking up’ in a new video before pulling a range of facial expressions.

Its realism is helped along by incredibly lifelike skin which even features stubble and eyebrows.

According to the video’s caption, the robot has 22 custom servo actuators of which only 5 are in the mouth, hence why this particular test model is not capable of effective lip syncing.

“Each Mesmer robot is designed and built from 3D in-house scans of real people, allowing us to imitate human bone structure, skin texture and expressions convincingly,” the company wrote.

While it’s currently unclear how this technology is likely to be used in the real world, Adrian offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which we might live and work alongside highly realistic robots.

Let us hope, however, that such a future doesn’t turn into an episode of Black Mirror.

Without a doubt humans are on the path to cyborgism. Robots and humans will merge. I’m referring to hundreds of years in the future.

Scene from the movie “Alien.”

From Around The World

A box to dispose of your cannabis in the Chicago airport

Old photo of our farm.

Astypalaia, Greece

Winter storm in New York City (photo: Marzenka)

Stunning photos taken 384,000 kilometers from the Moon…

Tribune, KS December 15, 2021

Okay..

Red Hawk in the Badlands of North Dakota (c. 1905)

Sunset at the Ben Franklin Bridge

Vintage view of the Statue of Liberty, taken from the torch balcony-which has been closed since 1916

San Francisco Bay

Tornado Shelters

Tornado safety measures.  If you own a house and you are in the house.  The ideas below could really help. 

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A storm shelter or storm cellar is a type of underground bunker designed to protect the occupants from violent severe weather, particularly tornadoes. They are most frequently seen in the Midwest (“Tornado Alley”) and Southeastern United States (“Dixie Alley”) where tornadoes are generally frequent and the low water table permits underground structures.

The most common tornado shelters have steep stairs, making them inaccessible to people with ambulatory disabilities. The base model, found in some backyards in Oklahoma, is an underground concrete box, like this one.